Orlando Film Festival
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| Location | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
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| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.orlandofilmfest.com/ |
The Orlando Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Orlando, Florida. It has become one of the premier film festivals for independent filmmakers to showcase their work. Heading into its 11th year, the Orlando Film Festival attracts upwards of 1000 entries from filmmakers in more than 30 countries every year.
History
Created as an alternative to commercial cinema, the annual week-long festival remains true to its original goal of promoting film as an art form. Its mission is to support and promote culture and the arts in Downtown Orlando through the medium of film. The Orlando Film Festival seeks to inspire student, future and current filmmakers in the art of filmmaking, and to enhance the movie viewing experience in Downtown Orlando through creative, unique and entertaining events. The Orlando Film Festival also fosters the growth of emerging and established film producers.
The festival is open to film of all lengths and genres, including experimental, narrative, animation, documentary, and genre hybrids. The festival’s mission is to provide a worldwide public forum for moving image exhibitions, to encourage and showcase artists of the moving image, to promote the moving image as art, and to offer educational outreach. The Orlando Film Festival has become one of the most active film organizations in the country championing artists' rights of expression and free speech. Past celebrity attendees are Marcia Gay Harden (2006),[1] Joe Pantoliano (2007),[2] Olympia Dukakis, and Haley Joel Osment & Alison Brie (2010).[3]
The 2015 festival ran October 21–25, and Kicked OFF with the 45 minute documentary about the rise to prominence of the Orlando City Soccer Club.
Management
- Executives & Directors
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Daniel Springen Holley Morgan Frank Smith |
Executive Director / Chairman, Sr. Vice President Vice President |
- Advisory Board Members
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Sylvia Caminer Alec Colley Robin k. Wright Wilmore Fowler Guy Austin Mercedes Taylor |